Kerberos provides secure login facilities for Unix, Linux and
Windows. Our speaker for this month's Kerberos meeting (and the
planned OpenAFS meeting) will be Jeff Altman. Unigroup members
will remember that Jeff is a past Unigroup speaker (of Kermit95
and Telnet Security Working Group fame). Jeff has been working
with a series of well known security related projects for many
years.

MIT Kerberos Version 5 is the basis for the Kerberos distributed
with Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, Debian, MacOS X, OpenVMS,
and just about every other Kerberos distribution other than the
Heimdal distribution and the implementation built into Microsoft
Windows 2000 and subsequent releases. MIT is directly responsible
for three Kerberos products:

MIT Kerberos 5 for Unix/Linux

MIT Kerberos for Macintosh which is bundled with MacOS X

MIT Kerberos for Windows

The current releases of MIT Kerberos 5 for Unix/Linux (1.3.3)
and KfW (2.6.1) are available from the MIT Kerberos web site:

Support for AES in GSSAPI has been implemented. This
corresponds to the in-progress work in the IETF (CFX).

MIT Kerberos for Windows 2.6 release includes krb5 release
1.3.3 and provides enhanced integration with the Microsoft
Windows Kerberos implementation as well as OpenAFS for Windows.

In addition to developing the leading open source implementation
of Kerberos, the MIT Kerberos Development Group contributes more
than half of the document authors within the IETF Kerberos
Working Group. MIT's participation has been crucial to ensuring
that all of the major implementations of Kerberos (including
Microsoft's) adhere to the published standards to facilitate
interoperability.

This talk will provide an introduction to the Kerberos 5
authentication protocol; a detailed overview of the MIT Kerberos
implementation; a discussion of interoperability concerns which
developers and administrators face when implementing and
deploying a multi-platform Kerberos infrastructure; and some
demonstrations utilizing the GSS on Linux, Windows, and Java.

Note:
If your organization would be interested in providing a grant
to further Kerberos development at MIT. Please contact
Marshall Vale, Team Leader, of The MIT Kerberos Team, at
krbcore@mit.edu.

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DIRECTIONS

Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City

This building is located on the West side of the street.
Cross Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.

Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street.
Walking West on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.

There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the
Battery Tunnel and extending North for a number of blocks.

Jeffrey Altman, is the President of Secure Endpoints Inc., and is
is a long time open source developer and participant in the Internet
Engineering Task Force. Jeffrey's current projects and roles include:

MIT Kerberos. Core team member. http;//web.mit.edu/kerberos/
Contributor to the Kerberos 5 library and applications; and lead
developer of the Kerberos for Windows product.

OpenAFS. Gatekeeper. http://www.openafs.org
Lead developer for the Windows port of OpenAFS client and server.

Secure Endpoints Inc. specializes in providing support and new development for open source
products on the Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 family of products.

GIVEAWAYS

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.

Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Addison-Wesley also has a new end-user discount, available
through their User Group program. We will be announcing the
details at our next meeting!

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. many of these books are valued between $30 and $60)!